Bandai Namco US posted a new video for One Piece: Grand Gourmet yesterday, welcoming fans as the newest staff members of the Baratie Number Two, a floating restaurant run by the Straw Hats in a pixel-art world from Kairosoft. Check out the official post down below:
In the 18-second video, Tori, the little bird in a chef's hat who serves as your navigator, runs through the day from 9:00 in the morning to 18:00 in the evening, from "Setting sail!" and "Gathering ingredients!" to "Lunch rush!", "Showtime!" and "Time to feast!", before ending on "Oops, wrong camera!" The schedule also squeezes in "Study time!" and "Training hard!" between the meal services.
Why The Straw Hats Need A Second Baratie
Grand Gourmet takes place in what Bandai Namco calls "a slightly different world of ONE PIECE." An impostor Baratie has shown up on the seas, and its overpriced food has spread bad rumors that are damaging the real restaurant's reputation. Luffy and Sanji decide to fight back by opening the Baratie Number Two and beating the impostors at their own game.
Sanji leads the kitchen, and you work next to him to mix ingredients and recipes into new dishes, then plate and decorate them into set menus. Devil Fruit users can help out in the kitchen, and the menu includes series-inspired dishes like Water-Water Meat BBQ and Sea King Penne Gorgonzola. Luffy and the crew also train to improve their service.
The game was released on October 23 for Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PC through Steam, iOS and Android. Bandai Namco's launch trailer shows the restaurant in action:
More Than 400 Familiar Faces
Grand Gourmet includes more than 400 characters from the series, all redrawn as pixel sprites, and each one has their own taste in food and décor. Keeping them happy grows your fanbase, and Bandai Namco teases "memorable interactions and friendships forming" as characters gather in your dining room. Some of those customers can even open their own shops inside the restaurant.
The restaurant also grows over time. As it expands, you sail to more parts of the sea, gather new ingredients and welcome a wider range of customers.
The decorations pull from the series too. More than 200 furniture items are available, with pieces inspired by Whole Cake Island and Egghead among them.
Sanji's Recipes In A Real Kitchen
Bandai Namco has been promoting the game with "Teach me, Tori," a video series in which Chef David recreates dishes from the anime and manga. So far he has made Sanji's Pilaf from the story with Gin, Stone Stew from Skypiea, the classic Meat on the Bone, and Macedonia, a dish tied to Nami and Zeff. The recipes take inspiration from the cookbook One Piece: Pirate Recipes by Sanji.
Bandai Namco released a free Ver. 1.09 update for the game on October 30, and it is rated E by the ESRB.
The Straw Hats are also on their way into Fortnite, as covered in One Piece's Straw Hat Pirates Are Officially Sailing Into Fortnite This November. On the anime side, the English dub schedule for the Elbaph arc is in Here's When One Piece Elbaph Arc English Dubs Will Stream On Crunchyroll.
Which Straw Hat would you want working the front of house at the Baratie Number Two, and which dish from One Piece should Chef David cook next?
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